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Submitted by jian89· Mar 4, 2026Reconnaissance Techniques

Question

In the process of footprinting a target website, an ethical hacker utilized various tools to gather critical information. The hacker encountered a target site where standard web spiders were ineffective due to a specific file in its root directory. However, they managed to uncover all the files and web pages on the target site, monitoring the resulting incoming and outgoing traffic while browsing the website manually. What technique did the hacker likely employ to achieve this?

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  • AUsing the Netcraft tool to gather website information
  • BExamining HTML source code and cookies
  • CUsing Photon to retrieve archived URLs of the target website from archive.org
  • DUser-directed spidering with tools like Burp Suite and WebScarab

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#footprinting#web spidering#robots.txt bypass#Burp Suite
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